Dear mothers,
I am Hasya, mother to a 6 mo old girl. We had trouble nursing in the first month because of latch issues. An LLL leader advised me and the next month was a dream. Starting 2 months and a week, she started pulling off, crying. I would shush her and put her back on, and after objecting for a bit, she would nurse. Cutting out dairy didn't help any. I thought that it was perhaps wheat or my vitamins and/or iron supplement, because she started to have mucous in her stools at about 3 mo. Cutting out all 3, starting at around 4 mo did nothing to the mucous. But she seemed happier to be at the breast. But then, she seemed just as happy after re-introducing wheat and vitamin supplements at almost 5 mo (not iron, as it was messing me up too). Now, the mucous is all but gone, quite mysteriously.
However, for the last 10 days or so, she has begun pulling off crying. And I was noticing small black dots in her diaper. I wasn't even sure that they were even part of the stool. But today, I saw that she had some brown tinged stools, not all of it, but some. TMI, sorry: I had one very diarrhea-like incident this morning after eating a 2 egg omelet for dinner last night. I don't know if these could be inter-linked.
Now, this new crying episodes began with 2 changes - I had started eating eggs (I don't know on what basis this was, but I was diagnosed with an egg allergy at around 8 yrs of age after a nose bleeding incident; I have eaten egg recently but with no apparent side effects) right around that time, and we no longer have a grandmother staying with us, as we had from birth to the day I re-started eating eggs.
We have an appointment on Sunday. But I was hoping to get some advice on this.
She has no visible teeth yet but what look like hard teeth under her gums. She pulls away with a grunt when I try to feel her gums. But as if in a game. Not as if in pain.
I am trying not to read too much into this - but she only gained 200 g in 34 days (Sep 16 to Oct 20) before all of this crying began. I teeter on the edge of giving up. It has become a battle between my belief system and my willpower or the lack thereof. It takes all shreds of willpower I can muster up to continue trying and not get angry with myself.
-Feeling worthless.
I am Hasya, mother to a 6 mo old girl. We had trouble nursing in the first month because of latch issues. An LLL leader advised me and the next month was a dream. Starting 2 months and a week, she started pulling off, crying. I would shush her and put her back on, and after objecting for a bit, she would nurse. Cutting out dairy didn't help any. I thought that it was perhaps wheat or my vitamins and/or iron supplement, because she started to have mucous in her stools at about 3 mo. Cutting out all 3, starting at around 4 mo did nothing to the mucous. But she seemed happier to be at the breast. But then, she seemed just as happy after re-introducing wheat and vitamin supplements at almost 5 mo (not iron, as it was messing me up too). Now, the mucous is all but gone, quite mysteriously.
However, for the last 10 days or so, she has begun pulling off crying. And I was noticing small black dots in her diaper. I wasn't even sure that they were even part of the stool. But today, I saw that she had some brown tinged stools, not all of it, but some. TMI, sorry: I had one very diarrhea-like incident this morning after eating a 2 egg omelet for dinner last night. I don't know if these could be inter-linked.
Now, this new crying episodes began with 2 changes - I had started eating eggs (I don't know on what basis this was, but I was diagnosed with an egg allergy at around 8 yrs of age after a nose bleeding incident; I have eaten egg recently but with no apparent side effects) right around that time, and we no longer have a grandmother staying with us, as we had from birth to the day I re-started eating eggs.
We have an appointment on Sunday. But I was hoping to get some advice on this.
She has no visible teeth yet but what look like hard teeth under her gums. She pulls away with a grunt when I try to feel her gums. But as if in a game. Not as if in pain.
I am trying not to read too much into this - but she only gained 200 g in 34 days (Sep 16 to Oct 20) before all of this crying began. I teeter on the edge of giving up. It has become a battle between my belief system and my willpower or the lack thereof. It takes all shreds of willpower I can muster up to continue trying and not get angry with myself.
-Feeling worthless.
to mdc!
i try it every so often to see if the baby is now strong enough to handle an egg.....i miss eggs. so much. so very, very much.
